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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Dodi 'insisted on car decoy plan'


The sole survivor of the car crash which killed Princess Diana said Dodi Al Fayed had insisted on the ill-fated decoy plan to dodge waiting paparazzi.
Trevor Rees said he had had reservations about Mr Al Fayed's plan to sneak out of the Ritz Hotel.
He suffered serious head injuries and made a good recovery but has said he has little memory of events which led up to Diana and Mr Al Fayed's deaths.

Giving evidence at their inquest, he denied being part of a murder cover-up.
Mr Rees, who was known as Rees-Jones at the time of the crash on 31 August 1997, told the jury he went along with the plan because Dodi had talked about leaving the Paris hotel with no security.
Mr Rees, who was employed by Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed as a bodyguard for his son Dodi at the time of the crash, broke every bone in his face and suffered serious chest injuries.

The ex-bodyguard, the only person in the car wearing a seatbelt, told the inquest: "All I have ever done is given the truth as I see it."
He made the remarks in answer to a question in which Ian Burnett QC, for the coroner, outlined Mohamed Al Fayed's controversial claim that Diana was murdered.

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This article provides further insight into the death of Princes Diana and what happened on the night of her death. Like Diana's former butler Paul Burrell, Trevor Rees also does not believe that her death was planned.

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